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Originally Posted by RainingLemur
Would that mean that someone who self-publishes would be a complete jerk-bag if their book were geo-restricted (since it would be their call, after all)?
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Yes, unless they also have a previous region-specific contract with a publisher. E.g. Diane Duane sells ebooks of her Young Wizards series herself everywhere except in the US, where her publishers has the ebook rights.
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Originally Posted by J. Strnad
An author would be foolish to grant all foreign rights to a publisher with no distribution outside his native country!
That situation needn't apply to ebooks, but contracts are still catching up with the way things have always been done.
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Exactly so. If print books don't go away for the mass-market, then the only sensible future contract, IMO, is one with regional, exclusive print-rights, but non-exclusive world-wide ebook rights.